Equipment & Resources
Music practice rooms.
There are five large band rehearsal rooms, seven small band rooms, six rooms set up with piano/keyboards.
There is a DJ studio and two digital audio workrooms, as well as a range of individual practice rooms.
A package of professional music equipment can be borrowed, including vocal PA, drum kits, bass and guitar amps and over 30 musical instruments.
Recording studios.
There are six professionally equipped recording studios. All are 24 track and some have facilities for sound to picture production, surround mixing, mastering and editing.
Studio kit list
All six recording studios are professionally designed and acoustically treated and isolated.
Consoles are currently:
- Audient (ASP8024 36 channel and 24 channel)
- Yamaha (DM2000)
- SSL (AWS900+ and a
- 48 channel Duality)
- Digidesign (16 fader Icon with Surround Panning Option).
Our standard multi-track format is ProTools HD, but we also support RADAR in most studios and DTRS and 2-inch analogue tape (Otari MTR-90) in the central machine room.
The Pro-tools HD systems are installed with a range of plug-ins from Waves and Sonnox, and a Pyramix Post system enhances DAW capability in post-production studio.
Offline suites.
There are 12 offline workstations to complement the HD systems in the studios.
The offline workstations are based around Mac Pros. Each system runs Logic Studio, Pro-tools LE and a variety of software synthesizers and samplers such as Reason and Reaktor.
Mobile Recording.
In addition to the recording studios, we also have a mobile recording system
with microphone preamplifiers, monitoring and routing based around a Pro-tools HD2 system. This is used for recording on location (for example at the Philharmonic Hall), or for recording in some of the larger performance spaces.
Performance spaces
We have two main performance spaces used for live productions and for teaching. The Paul McCartney Auditorium (PMA) is a traditional proscenium arch theatre and is our largest performance space which can seat over 400 people. The Sennheister Studio Theatre can hold an audience of 130. We have also invested in equipment that enables us to transform our café area into a great venue for music gigs.
Take a virtual tour of the Paul McCartney Auditorium
Take a virtual tour of the Sennheiser Studio Theatre